LAST JUBILEE-CANCELLED! TOO ‘PUNK’

The spirit of 1977 has shown it’s ugly side with Bath Council putting a cancellation notice on the Last Jubilee event being held at Bath racecourse 2,3,4 June 2012.

Using spurious health & safety legislation and by delaying their decision until today (31-5-2012) has meant that their ridiculous claims and pathetic demands could not be countered in time for this event to go ahead.

The miniscule issues that the venue and the local council had could easily have been dealt with if their notice of cancellation had been delivered in time. They chose to wait until today to do this, giving the organisers no time to put right the minor issues that were raised.

It has become obvious that the venue and the local council did not want this event to go ahead, on what grounds is not clear. One of the ‘concerns’ they had was that this was a ‘Punk’ festival, and the ‘undesirable’ element that this would attract! There is no point even dignifying that with a response, except to say that The Last Jubilee had sold almost as many family tickets as individual adult tickets.

Another issue is the ‘Royal’ Bath didn’t want it’s proud name associated with an Anti-Jubilee occasion. Firstly this was in no way an anti-jubilee event, it was a celebration of the music of 1977, the silver jubilee year. It was entirely, and only, a music festival with no political content whatsoever.

Secondly amongst the 4 children’s charities that this event was intended to support was one who’s patron is The Princess Royal! An anti-monarchy event wouldn’t really want to be involved with a senior member of the Royal Family.

On the subject of the charities, 4 local and national children’s charities stood to benefit from donations of thousands of pounds from the organisers and attendees as well as much needed publicity and raised awareness from the event programme and from having a presence at the event itself. That will now not happen!

The promoters and organisers of The Last Jubilee have asked for patience and understanding from the ticket holders and performers as they try and rearrange this event as soon as possible.

However it is with great regret and massive annoyance that we have to confirm that the event in it’s current form due to be held at Bath Racecourse over the Jubilee Weekend has been cancelled.